GWADAR: Transporters continued their strike in Makran on Saturday, protesting alleged harassment at test posts on the freeway, which has stranded giant numbers of pilgrims and different folks on the Pakistan-Iran border.
Transporters from Gwadar, Turbat and Panjgur districts have been on strike for the previous 4 days, protesting harassment at checkpoints on the Coastal and RCD highways.
The pilgrims who returned from Iran after visiting Mashhad and different holy websites are dealing with difficulties upon arrival in Pakistan on the Gwadar border space. This is because of an absence of satisfactory motels and relaxation homes within the space, leaving them with out correct amenities.
They’re dealing with extreme shortages of important gadgets like meals, ingesting water, and different edible provides. Moreover, sufferers requiring medical remedy outdoors Balochistan are dealing with excessive challenges,
additional exacerbating the disaster.
Many pilgrims stranded at Pak-Iran border in absence of public transport
In keeping with officers, some teams of pilgrims, together with ladies and kids, have managed to rearrange non-public transportation to their locations. “Nonetheless, a lot of pilgrims stay stranded, awaiting transport to depart the world. In the meantime, the native administration is offering them with meals and different important gadgets,” an official instructed Daybreak.
The transporters have parked their automobiles at Bhawani Camp, warning the federal government that if their calls for are usually not met, they are going to escalate the protest by blocking highways to all visitors.
Probe ordered
Minister for Residence and Tribal Affairs Mir Ziaullah Langove has taken critical discover of stories of extortion calls for at varied safety test posts in several areas of Balochistan and ordered an investigation into the matter.
The minister mentioned Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti issued clear directives that no leniency could be proven to the people concerned in extortion. He mentioned administrative officers discovered complicit in extortion actions would face penalties.
Saleem Shahid in Quetta additionally contributed to this report
Revealed in Daybreak, Could twenty sixth, 2024